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OOC 'RP Directory' idea

Blood Moon Goblins
19-06-2005, 08:53
Just a random thought, but it seems like its rather tough to find a good, open RP without a bunch of posts in it already. So, my idea is that I make a thread or forum (not likely, since it would be somewhat inconvinient) that can be kept updated fairly often, once every few days or so.
It would be organized by tech level, and whether or not it was an Eart (whatever) only RP.
RP's would be removed from the list after a week or when they got to two pages of posts (on my forum settings, which I beleive is 40 posts per page.

Any takers? People to post RP's?
Arani
20-06-2005, 02:46
Might be a good idea - but I question your 'organise by tech level' thing, because that's one of those things that I'm disliking about the current generation of NS. Why do the different tech levels need to be broken up - if everyone just got on with RPing instead of 'ho noes! These people can't exist! They have different technology than us!' - there'd be a lot more variety in RP. Sure, it might be logistically impossible to RP with someone who's in a different galaxy while you're still throwing rocks at each other, but if events can be manipulated in the RP so that they come in to contact - why not? Of course, I could be rambling totally off key here, but all this 'MT Only', or 'FT Only' stuff annoys me (especially when I can't really interact with either).

Maybe it would be best to sort them by what is actually happening in the RP, such as 'Diplomatic', 'War', 'Character Heavy' ect.
Jagada
20-06-2005, 03:06
Why not just come up with a plot for a war?

I'm all for having FT and MT nations go at it. I read in the International Consolidation Sticky thing or whatever, that all techs can work together. Don't get me wrong, no Musket Wielding Army is going to take down Star Wars Tech, but it would be a fun war nonetheless. Who knows, maybe the Musketmen could outflank the enemy or something, or prehaps fight a guriella war.

Personally, as a Modern Tech nation I have no problem going against a Future Tech nation. Of coarse, I don't want them to send a fleet that vaporized my island nation. Or at the very least, I be permitted to have a weapons system at some point in the RP that can take out their ships.

Or it would be fun to have WWII nations fight Modern Tech, or something along those lines.

I think that if more RPs open up with MT vs FT, MT vs PMT, or even PT vs Semi-MT, that you would see ALOT more PT nations being roleplayed, as they know that their fellow RPs won't pull a ubertech move and cast their bones across the wastelands.
Khrrck
20-06-2005, 03:36
There already is a RP directory, if I remember correctly. I'll dig up a link in a moment-
Khrrck
20-06-2005, 03:41
[Nationstates Roleplay Guide And Listing]

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=401122
Generic empire
20-06-2005, 04:17
[Nationstates Roleplay Guide And Listing]

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=401122

OOC: Seeing as that thread is looking a bit dead, and is catering largely to NS forum folk, it might be a good idea to have one to call our own here in II.

Case anyone's interested, i'm looking for a few good RPers to come in as my enemies in this thread right here:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=417190

It might look intimidating because of the number of posts, but all you really have to do is read the first and last few posts and you're set to go. Ask for a summary here in the OOC thread if you want to participate:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=417194
Clan Fur
20-06-2005, 06:23
its uber tech that pisses me off, and nations summoning 200,000 soilders with armor that stops everything. The nations that take squads then a division are better... but that was a tangent...

but yeah mixing tech sounds wicked, no boundries, 'cept for like getting ten million t-rexes wielding laser cannons...